The Japanese dug in and held the islands until mid-1943, when American and Canadian forces recaptured them in brutal invasions. It was the first time since the War of 1812 that American soil had been occupied by an enemy. After bombing Dutch Harbor, Japanese forces siezed the tiny islands of Attu and Kiska. Overview On the morning of December 7, 1941, Japan attacked the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. But at the same time as this battle was taking place, a Japanese aircraft carrier strike force thousands of miles to the north was attacking the Aleutian Islands of Alaska.
Navy, and was later regarded as the most important battle of the Pacific Campaign. losses amounted to a single carrier and 307 deaths. At the end of several days of fighting, the Japanese Navy had lost four aircraft carriers and nearly 250 aircraft and suffered more than 3,000 deaths. Aircraft launched from Midway Atoll and from carriers of both navies and flew hundreds of miles, dropping torpedoes and bombs and fighting one another in the skies. On June 3, 1942, the Battle of Midway commenced. American codebreakers deciphered the Japanese plans, allowing the U.S. aircraft carriers and occupy Midway Atoll - a tiny but strategically important island nearly halfway between Asia and North America, that was home to a U.S.
news of the ships, and news from larger cities around the world. Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan prepared to deal one more decisive blow to the U.S. Memoirs attack on Pearl Harbor, 1941 chronology for six years service in Navy.
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